Waste management for ongoing operations, environmental remediation, and decontamination and decommissioning projects must be analyzed and planned to ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements. Waste planning also ensures proper classification and segregation of waste types, minimizes waste handling costs, and ensures a disposition path for the waste. Generation of waste without proper planning could create a situation where waste is mismanaged or generated without viable disposition options. To ensure compliance with all Federal and State regulatory requirements, WESKEM produces comprehensive Waste Management Plans prior to the start of waste generation.

Waste Management Plans provide life-cycle management guidance. The plans also include waste stream-specific information and requirements, such as:

• anticipated volumes,
• characterization strategies and requirements,
• physical, chemical and radiological characteristics of the waste,
• waste processing and preparation guidance
• waste profile requirements,
• waste packaging requirements, and
• waste storage, transportation, and disposal requirements.

WESKEM uses this information to prepare the infrastructure necessary to effectively and efficiently integrate waste generation with waste disposition, reducing project cost and schedule.